Making of Firecracker Jinx : Flower, hair piece and gloves

  
Now let's see how the rest was made!

I found this pretty fake flower at Michael's. It's pretty big! I was certain that I would make the flower rather large, than small already; with your focus on your face/head, white contrasting and black hair and green bang will grab a lot of attention! Also I made sure to get a good quality flower for this purpose because this is going to be next to your face. You can see I used scissors to shape the petals to my liking, because it was a bit bulky in some areas.

I also noticed that the bottom green area was pushing the flower up, shaping up nicely. However I wanted the petal to fall a bit more so I ended up cutting a bit of the flower green base. Now hot glue a hair clip and you are done.



Now, moving to Jinx's long pigtails!

I got some ropes from Orchard's. I looked for something thick enough but also light enough, because these are going to be pretty long and I need it to stay on my head for an entire day.
I tied the end with wire ties and scorched the end a bit with lighter, melting it slightly so it doesn't' unravel too much.

This is a bang/side hair wig that I got few years ago, and never used it again because I decided to cut my bangs, instead of keeping "goddess hair" as we Koreans call it (bang-less long hair). I'm going to repurpose this wig for this costume!

Carefully cut the "scalp" fabric, trying not to cut the hair. Man, black hair wig looks so creepy.

Using gluegun and wire, firmly attach the hair on the rope. It is quite easy to do this thanks to the "scalp" fabric on the wig!

 I'm using a bit of plastic sheet to give some cylindrical shape around where the hair attaches to the rope.

Later I decided that I wanted it to be thicker, and added the string rope that I used for making the Zapper.

Now I'm sewing red clothe onto the rope. Stitches can be sparse, but make sure you sew the fabric and the rope together so the fabric stays where it should be!

Here is the finished hair piece, with gold trim hot-glued in and wig hair clip sewn onto the rope for attaching to my hair.





Now let's make the gloves!

 Gloves were super easy. I got some fabric and measured a triangle-like shape with wrist part added, and sew them.

I always roll the edges in when sewing to 1) prevent unraveling and to 2) give a bit of firmness along the edge and 3) gives a nice finish. I wish I could get an overlock machine in future, but one can dream.

 I got this interesting golden flat rope from fabric store. Not sure what it is used for originally but I liked the amount of detail it had. One downfall was that all these needs to be hand-stitched, because I didn't want to use hot glue on a wearable costume, and there was no way that I would be able to keep it clean with a mess. I made a little loop in the end so my middle finger can go through.

 

Gold faux leather trim also needed to be hand stitched. It's thick and hurt my fingers a lot even with a thimble.

I glued a gem I got from Michael's on the back of the hand. For the glue I was using this one:

I wouldn't want to use hotglue on fabric unless emergency, so I used the one above. AFAIK it is quite toxic so do not inhale the fume or leave it in your room when it cures (~24hours)! I left it outside so that my pet rats would be safe. Their respiratory system is fragile like the birds.

Also don't forget to make the boots cover using the same fabric! I made mine in the last minute and didn't take any photos of work in progress, but it is basically the same as the gloves in a different shape.






Now lastly I will continue to talk about the dress itself on the next post.